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or if you're nursing, pregnant or plan to be. every day matters. and i want more of them. ask your doctor about everyday verzenio. i'm raj matha. next on nbc bay area news tonight, a bizarre discovery in the south bay near a school. a sophisticated underground bunker filled with stolen goods and guns. we'll take you inside. long lines in san francisco tonight to get the monkeypox vaccine. we need thousands more doses to keep up with demand. a new condition fernando tatis, jr. covid variant fueling a rise in cases and frustration. our covid expert is with us to explain why we are still in a better place than before. a heated exchange between a cal law professor and missouri senator josh hawley.
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>> i it opens up transpeople to violence. >> the video has millions of views on twitter. if you have seen the photos, a look at stars and galaxies billions of miles away. good evening. this is nbc bay area news tonight. i'm raj mathai. a lot coming your way. we start with disturbing discoveries in san jose. an underground bunker filled with guns and stolen goods. the land owned by the city of san jose. it's location not far from schools. officers discovered it yesterday. take a look. we go down and inside. it is pretty sophisticated, has electricity and running water. there is rifles inside this bunker and stolen tools. nbc bay area damian trujillo was the only reporter to go
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inside. >> reporter: that's coyote creek down there. in the middle of the creek is what appears to be an abandoned truck which is par for the course around some of these encampments. if you pan the camera around, you can see what we are talking about here. this is the encampment or bunker at the encampment that police found in this bunker they found all of the stolen items from a company called sprig electric and within those items as well apparently they found some guns that were in that same store and so they found them along with all the other evidence here at this encampment. they have running water out here. they have electricity here. they have all the comforts of home as one person put it and so this is what the police officers have been dealing with. a tip led them to this location after that burglary at sprig electric. this is nothing new for them when they confront some of these situations at some of these encampments across the city of san jose. there were quite a few arrests and they are still looking for
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one stolen truck from that burglary from yesterday, but we're kind of surprised by the bunker, but some of these officers apparently are not because they see this a lot in some of their investigations around san jose. >> pretty sophisticated. thank you, damian. another headline we are watching tonight, it's her first big project as san francisco's new d.a. brooke jenkins in the tenderloin today promising to clean up this neighborhood. the tenderloin has been a place where open air drug dealing is the norm and addicts crowd the streets. it became a focal point for those looking to recall the last district attorney chesa boudin. many claimed his lax prosecution policies attracted more criminals to the streets. jenkins says she plans to hold drug dealers accountable and that include revoking plea offers in the city's drug cases and creating a pathway for recovery for drug users. >> i am committed to making
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sure we restore accountability with respect to drug dealing in san francisco. i don't agree to a one size fits all approach not when it comes to consequences or lack of consequences. we need to approach each case and see what that person's circumstances individually and so that's what i am committed to doing so that we are dealing with repeat offenders differently than we are the first time offender, right, because that's what it is going to take. >> she has got her work cut out for her. critics of the plan say the city cannot arrest its way out of the problem. they are urging the d.a. and mayor london breed to focus on creating recovery programs for addicts and meaningful job training programs for the neighborhood. the number of monkeypox patients is increasing and growing and demand for vaccines also growing. the san francisco health department says the city has 60 confirmed or suspected cases. santa clara county is now investigating nine cases and sonoma county investigating its
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first two cases. there is an effective vaccine for monkeypox, but the issue right now getting your hands on it. san francisco leaders are asking the feds to speed things up and send thousands more of the vaccines here to the bay area. nbc pete suratos is at sf general one of the handful of city sites distributing the limited supply of vaccines. >> reporter: you know for several hours this afternoon you had long lines outside of san francisco general. you had folks lined up all the way to that building that you see down there. if folks arrive this evening, they found out that there was no more monkeypox vaccine. those doses were no longer available at san francisco general because they are all out. that's exactly the problem. san francisco officials are saying that they need more supply in the city. now as it stands, they are saying that the city was given just under 3,000 doses. san francisco supervisor rafael mandelman asking for more federal help.
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he wants an additional 35,000 doses for the city. health officials say that is at least a good starting point. currently there are 60 reported cases of monkeypox in san francisco, but health officials say there are many that have not been reported. they say if you are notified of any potential exposure to monkeypox, they say you should get vaccinated immediately. in san francisco, pete suratos, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. here we go again. there's a good chance that you know someone right now who has covid. a new, highly contagious strain of covid fueling not only our current covid surge, but also frustrations as we continue to learn how to live with this virus. we are talking now about ba.5. california positivity rate is now more than 16%. 16.1% right now. this is one of the highest rates we've seen since the pandemic began. it is still a little lower than the peak we saw during the winter surge which was about 22%. experts say almost one in five
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californians right now have covid. not only is ba.5 highly contagious, but it doesn't seem to matter whether or not you were sick before. a new study out of australia suggests that ba.5 is shrinking our window for natural immunity. instead of being immune for 12 weeks after getting covid, that window is now closer to four weeks. joining us now one of our covid experts from ucsf, doctor, nice to have you on the program. one in five californians infected with covid. that's the guess there, the speculation, the estimate. does that surprise you the high numbers? >> it doesn't surprise me at all, raj. it is kind what have we expect. i think even more chilling than that is the fact that a lot of people actually have covid without any symptoms and we estimate about one in 15 people with no symptoms have covid and they don't know it. >> you've gone through this the
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last two years now seeing the various forms. ba.5, what makes it so contagious? >> the super power of ba.5 is the fact it's immune invasive. it's an escape artist. there is recent study from australia showing that it may produce more virus in each cell it effects. why is that important? that's important because our immune system responds to each virus it sees. if you have more virus, you might feel sicker, but the silver lining is hospitals despite having a fire of covid outside the doors is still relatively intact. high levels but nothing compared to what we've seen before. >> doctor, a lot of what we knew in the last couple years to fight covid in the past like masking or vaccines don't necessarily mean we won't get sick. you understand why people are getting frustrated at this point in the game that we are doing as much as we can yet we are still getting infected. >> yes, people are getting frustrated. i feel frustrated. we want to get back to normal
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life and there is ba.5 now. we thought we would be coming around the curve. we thought we would have a good july and august before the fall. i think it is understandable, but at the same time we have all these tools, we have a menu of options that people can lean on top of each other depending on each person's situation. i think we are going to get there. it is just going to be a little bit longer road at least until the updated booster at the end of october. >> you mention normal life. when you talk to your patients or anyone in the community, is there such a thing that we use that term anymore or do we have to figure out what the new life is? >> you're right, raj. it is a new life. i still think we are in a period of shifting sands and we will probably get to something closer to 2019 within a few months, within a year, and i think that for me will mean that it becomes predictable like maybe every winter and then every winter we will get combination of a flu shot and
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covid booster that is updated in one needle. >> really quick. last question. a lot of people are still waiting to be eligible next to the second booster. a third booster might be ready this fall. do you wait for people and not get that second booster and just do the third booster? what's your guidance? >> you definitely don't wait. we don't know exactly when that will happen. we don't know when the kid formulation will happen. congress still has to approve $10 billion to pay for everybody to be vaccinated with a new booster. i think now is now and go ahead and get it if you are eligible for it. >> dr. peter chin-hong, have a good evening. >> thank you, raj. stunning images from deep space. we'll breakdown what it means and what it shows and the key role bay area scientists had in making it happen. also --
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i mean, can i have a bite? only from xfinity. nah. unbeatable internet. made to do anything so you can do anything. welcome back to nbc bay area news tonight. a law professor at cal is making headlines after a tense exchange with missouri senator josh hawley. the video now has millions of views on twitter. it happened earlier today during a senate judiciary
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hearing discussing legal issues following the supreme court ruling to overturn roe v. wade. professor khiara bridges specializes in reproductive rights and was called as a witness for the hearing. >> you referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy. would that be women? >> many women, cis women have a capacity for pregnancy. many cis women don't have a capacity for pregnancy. there are transmen capable of pregnancy. >> reporter: this isn't really a women's rights issue. >> we can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing it impacts other groups. those things are not mutually exclusive senator hawley. >> your view is that the core of this right is about what? >> so, i want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic and it opens up transpeople to violence by not -- >> wow, you're saying i'm opening up people to violence by asking whether women are
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folks who have pregnancies? >> i want to note that one out of five transgender persons have attempted suicide so i think -- >> because of my line of questioning? so we can't talk about it? >> because denying that transpeople exist and pretending not to know that they exist -- >> i'm denying that transpeople exist by asking you if you are asking women can have pregnancies? >> are you denying that men can get pregnant? >> i'm denying men get pregnant. is this how you run your classroom? are students allowed to question or or do you run it like this that you are opening up people to violence by questioning? >> you might learn a lot. >> some context about the beginning of this exchange. there is debate happening right now about whether the word "woman" is inclusive enough when referring to those impacted by the overturning of roe v. wade. groups like the aclu have used language lining pregnant people when discussing the impact from the court's decision. they see it as a way to include
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members of the lgbtq community who are impacted including those who identify as trans or nonbinary. there are others who argue that the shift in language may be downplaying or erasing cis gender from the women including "new york times" columnist pamela paul. in the column posted last week, she argued not using the term "women" makes them invisible. we did reach out to professor khiara bridges from cal in e- mail, but i have not heard back from her. senator hawley who went to stanford has been tweeting out video of that exchange and retweeting other people who also posted it. let's move on. tonight, there is big news from outer space. have you heard this yet or seen it? take a look. this is the deepest and sharpest phot i don't have of its kind ever taken. a cluster of thousands of galaxies in space more than four billion light years away.
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the photos come from the webb telescope which started collecting data and taking photos a couple of weeks ago. that image is just one of a series just released by nasa. the telescope is capturing the most detailed look ever of our universe. what exactly does all of this mean? we're bringing in our business and tech reporter scott budman who is our resident nerd, space nerd and i use that with all derespect because you love this stuff. i am looking at one of these photos. help me because i'm a real no advice here. are these mountains here? what is this compared to this? >> this is space dust. you are looking at stars being born, raj. i must say i wish i had words for this. i don't largely because i'm not educated enough. i'm not a scientist. this is amazing. we are looking so far into the past of universes, of the entire galaxies. this is the whole shebang here. you are looking at seven light years tall of space dust they call it and this is birth of a
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star we are watching from thousands of years away, light years away. stars being born. it's staggering. it's amazing. >> why does this apply to us right now? do we learn more about where we come from or where we are heading? >> sure, we do. this is not the first space telescope, but it is the most up to date, the most tech logically advanced. it is looking far deeper in the past than we or any human has been able to look. >> what do you see here? dying stars as well? >> this is the birth of stars. there's another one that shows dying stars. this is actually stars being created. it's staggering to think that we are looking at that and also we mention that there is another space telescope. next to you the image from the hubble space telescope. >> this is the original or the old school. >> right, the hubble has been up there for 30 years. this is new. this is one that just came in from the james webb telescope. same thing. look at the detail and stars. it's amazing to think this is
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the kind of tech logically and cameras we have this far out into space. >> we talk about the silicon valley connection. here is the dying star, correct? >> yes, this is a star dying sending out space gas and all this incredible material. by the way, how detailed is this? this little thing right here is a galaxy. i mean, amazing. you mention the camera. we'll get to that. that camera built here in the bay area in palo alto at lockheed martin. we were out there today talking to the chief scientist who said they are extremely proud. they are setting up science for the next several generations of scientists. check it out. >> being able to observe the earliest stars and galaxies as they were formed. being able to observe, understand their evolution. be able to observe the star and the other is to observe planets and be able to not only get images, but get information that allows us that allows us to infer what's in the atmosphere of that planet.
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>> one thing that's being said today is thanks to hubble we were able to see black holes for the first time. thanks to webb, we're going to see planets that may actually contain life someday. >> there's something out there. >> you believe that, yes, i certainly do. >> i know you are very excited. a lot of people are. it is fascinating just to see all this happening in real time. >> there will be a lot more staggered pictures. we've seen four or five now that come in and we'll be able to see deeper and further into history than we've ever been able to see. >> and clearer. >> that too. >> thank you, scott. if you want to examine the new photos on your own or learn more about how the telescope's camera was developed, head to nbcbayarea.com. we have a link to both of those things right now on our front page. let's take you outside on this tuesday night. speaking of heading out into the clouds and into the skies, the clouds and into the skies, you are looking live at my tribe has lived on this land for 12,000 years.
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it's christmas in july for amazon. prime day is happening right now. millions of things and items on sale. you have until actually tomorrow at midnight to snag some deals. it's not just prime day. it's prime two days. there are some deals you may want to wait for. gaming systems are expected to see better deals on black friday and if you want to wait
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for those back-to-school sales for laptops and school supplies, do that as well. how about this? the most popular first names in san francisco have been revealed according to analysis of names of registered voters. michael is the most common name in san francisco followed by david and john. where is jeff and raj? >> i mean, these are similar. maybe a little. >> we need to be represented here. jennifer is the most popular women's name and then you have elizabeth, maria and for our own jessica aguirre, we'll put her name sixth on the list. >> some of those going back to the '80s i'm thinking of that trend. we do need raj on there. >> we need to see it. give it another 10 years. >> how about next year? >> maybe next year. >> fog on the coast, right? yeah, fog on the coastline. we have this system offshore. it will keep temperatures nice and comfortable as we move through tomorrow. let's get a look at the microclimate forecast. you'll be able to see with this system just offshore as we roll it through tomorrow's forecast, we are starting off with those
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widespread areas of fog here to the north bay coastline down to the south bay also through the east bay some spotty areas of drizzle. this will hang on a little bit here by 10:00 in the morning. marin, napa, sonoma county dealing with cloud cover down to oakland and san francisco. as we hit the afternoon, we get sunshine away from the coast. numbers to start are going to begin here in the 50s across a lot of the bay area with a light wind and that fog as we mentioned. as we hit the afternoon, numbers not nearly as hot as we started the week off with. we had upper 90s. we are cooling it off a few more degrees as we head through tomorrow. that will put it at 79 in santa rosa, 85 in livermore, 80 in san jose. the trend near the bay and coast will be at 69 here in oakland, 63 in half moon bay. the other thing we are tracking of course is the smoke coming from the fire burning in yosemite. at this point it still looks like it is moving up towards tahoe as we head through tomorrow. no air quality issues for us. if you are heading near tahoe,
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you want to watch out for that and might limit your outdoor exposure. my seven-day forecast, look at this. we are holding on to 80s as we roll through the next seven days for daytime highs. 50s for morning lows. really fantastic forecast. this looks pretty good. i have to say the nasa image you guys showed earlier, i can't stop looking at it. >> it's really fascinating. i know you're like scott budman. you love that stuff. >> yeah. >> so many people are excited. it's cool to have silicon valley technology in there. >> it's like this is real. i'm mesmerized by the whole thing. >> it's happening out there. thank you, jeff. tonight at 11:00, they have plenty of beer but nothing to put the beer in. the big challenge facing many local breweries. why it is so hard for them to get their hands on cans and how the shortage may be costing you more. that's tonight on our 11:00 newscast. coming up in prime time tonight here on nbc, "america's got talent" starts at 8:00. "dancing with myself" at 10:00 and we are back with you at
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